document_title: Demographics of California

question_text: what percentage of the country lives in california

question_tokens: what percentage of the country lives in california

text: Demographics of California

text: Population[edit]

text:
Historical population

Census
Pop.

%±

1850
92,597

—

1860
379,994

310.4%

1870
560,247

47.4%

1880
864,694

54.3%

1890
1,213,398

40.3%

1900
1,485,053

22.4%

1910
2,377,549

60.1%

1920
3,426,861

44.1%

1930
5,677,251

65.7%

1940
6,907,387

21.7%

1950
10,586,223

53.3%

1960
15,717,204

48.5%

1970
19,953,134

27.0%

1980
23,667,902

18.6%

1990
29,760,021

25.7%

2000
33,871,648

13.8%

2010
37,253,956

10.0%

Sources: 1910-2010[2]

text: California is the most populous sub-national entity in North America. If it were an independent country, California would rank 34th in population in the world. It has a larger population than either Canada or Australia.[3] Its population is one third larger than that of the next largest state, Texas.[4] California surpassed New York to become the most populous state in 1962.[5] However, according to the Los Angeles Times, California's population growth has slowed dramatically in the 21st century.[6] In 2010, the state's five most populous counties were Los Angeles County, San Diego County, Orange County, Riverside County, and San Bernardino County, with Riverside County having the largest percentage increase in population.[7] The largest metro areas in California, as of 2010, are Los Angeles, San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose, San Diego, Riverside-San Bernardino, and Sacramento.[8] Fresno also has a metropolitan area of over one million residents.

text: As of 2006, California had an estimated population of 37,172,015, more than 12 percent of the U.S. population. This includes a natural increase since the last census of 1,557,112 people (that is 2,781,539 births minus 1,224,427 deaths) and an increase due to net migration of 751,419 people. Immigration resulted in a net increase of 1,415,879 people, and migration from within the U.S. produced a net decrease of 564,100 people. California is the 13th fastest-growing state. As of 2008, the total fertility rate was 2.15.[9] The most recent census reports the population of California is 39,144,818.

text: The center of population of California is located at 35°27′49″N 119°19′31″W / 35.463595°N 119.325359°W / 35.463595; -119.325359 in Kern County, near the town of Shafter.[10]

text: No single ethnic group forms a majority of California's population, making the state a minority-majority state. Hispanics (of any race) are the largest single ethnic group in the state.[11] Spanish is the state's second most spoken language. Areas with especially large Spanish speaking populations include the Los Angeles metropolitan area, the California-Mexico border counties of San Diego and Imperial, and the San Joaquin Valley. Nearly 43% of California residents speak a language other than English at home, a proportion far higher than any other state.[12]

text: California is home to almost 25% of the country's undocumented population, making up 6% of California's residents overall. Two-thirds of California's undocumented population have lived in the state for more than 10 years.[13]

text: About 26% of California's public school students in the 2011–12 school year identified themselves as white (non-Hispanic), and 52% of the state's students identified themselves as Hispanic or Latino. The following ethnic groups that made up the statewide public school student body were Asians (11%), African Americans (7%), Native Americans (0.7%), and Pacific Islanders (0.6%). Students of mixed race made up 2% of the public schools. Hispanics made up the majority of the state's public schools since 2010. Los Angeles Unified School District, the largest school district in California and second largest in the nation, is 73% Hispanic, 10% African American, 9% non-Hispanic Caucasian, 6% Asian, 0.5% Native American, and 0.4% Pacific Islander.[14]

text: National origin[edit]

text: According to 2015 US Census Bureau estimates, California's population was 72.9% White, 6.5% Black or African American, 14.7% Asian, 1.7% Native Americans, 0.5% Pacific Islander and 3.8% from two or more races. By ethnicity, 38.8% of the total population is Hispanic-Latino (of any race) and 61.4% Non-Hispanic (of any race). Hispanics are the largest ethnic group in California.[15]

text: As of 2015, California has the largest minority population in the United States. Non-Hispanic whites decreased from about 76.3 - 78% of the state's population in 1970[16] to 38.0% in 2015.[17] While the population of minorities accounts for 100.7 million of 300 million U.S. residents, 20% of the national total live in California.[18][19]

text: California has the highest number, and second highest percentage, of Asian Americans by state. Only Hawaii has a higher Asian American percentage than California. While New Mexico and Texas have higher percentages of Hispanics, California has the highest total number of Hispanics of any U.S. state. Hispanics are the largest single ethnic group in the state.[20]

text: The largest named ancestries in California are Mexican (25%), German (9%), Irish (7.7%), English (7.4%) and Italian (5.8%); there are 65 other ethnicities with sizable populations in California including Albanians, Australians, Canadians, Haitians, and Somalis as examples. Both Los Angeles and San Francisco have large numbers of residents with English, French, Italian, German, Russian, Armenian and Scandinavian ancestry.[citation needed]

text: California has the largest population of White Americans in the U.S., totaling 21,453,934 residents as of the 2010 census. The state has the fifth largest population of African Americans in the U.S., an estimated 2,299,072 residents. California's Asian population is estimated at 4.9 million, approximately one-third of the nation's estimated 15 million Asian Americans. California's Native American population of 285,512 is the third-largest of any state, behind Arizona and Oklahoma.[21] Other estimates place the Native American population of California at one million.[citation needed]

text:
Demographics of California (csv)

By race
White
Black
AIAN*
Asian
NHPI*

2000 (total population)
79.75%
7.65%
1.99%
12.39%
0.69%

2000 (Hispanic only)
30.79%
0.61%
0.85%
0.45%
0.13%

2005 (total population)
79.07%
7.45%
1.93%
13.47%
0.71%

2005 (Hispanic only)
33.59%
0.67%
0.84%
0.47%
0.13%

Growth 2000–05 (total population)
5.76%
3.90%
3.58%
16.01%
10.13%

Growth 2000–05 (non-Hispanic only)
-0.91%
2.80%
1.87%
16.18%
9.65%

Growth 2000–05 (Hispanic only)
16.36%
16.48%
5.87%
11.68%
12.29%

* AIAN is American Indian or Alaskan Native; NHPI is Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander

text: Since 2000 (the US Census), California has been known as the second state in US history (after Hawaii since its statehood in 1959) to have a non-white majority, the first state in US history to have a Latino minority, and since 2014, the first state to have a Latino plurality surpass other racial/ethnic groups. The media discussed the possibility of Latinos becoming a majority in the 21st century,[22] the first time since statehood (1850) when they were reduced to 20 percent of the population as a result of the California Gold Rush of 1848-49.

text: California has the largest population of European Americans of any state. For example, in 2000 California had more Bulgarian Americans, Romanian Americans and Hungarian Americans than any other U.S. state. Los Angeles and San Francisco have large Russian American or Russian populations, as well Ukrainian Americans; and a long history of English, Irish, Italian, German, and Polish communities established by immigrants in the late 19th century. There are also many English Americans, Irish Americans, and French Americans whose ancestors were the original 49ers, also known as the California Gold Rush immigrants. There are also immigrant communities from the former Yugoslavia such as Bosnians, Croatians, and Serbians.[citation needed]

text: California has over one million residents each with Spanish or Portuguese ancestry[citation needed], with communities along coastal parts of the state such as San Diego, Long Beach, Camarillo, Santa Clara Valley (including Cupertino, Gilroy and San Jose), Salinas Valley, Santa Maria Valley, and San Joaquin Valley. A small wave of Danish, Dutch and Swedish immigrants founded towns like Lathrop near Stockton, Artesia near Los Angeles, Kingsburg south of Fresno, Solvang north of Santa Barbara in the late 1800s and the private community of Sveadal located 15 miles south of San Jose and populated entirely by members of the Swedish American Patriotic League.[23] Small colonies of early 19th century Russian settlement under the Russian American Company are in Fort Ross,[24] Calistoga and the Russian River Valley in Sonoma and Napa counties. Small Amish/Mennonite colonies exist in an area bordered by the towns Oakdale, Riverbank and Ripon near Modesto and in Reedley, Sanger and Orange Cove near Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley; and in the outer Salinas Valley.[25]

text: The state also has over 2000 Circassian Americans with a little community in Anaheim.

text: Latinos, mainly Mexican Americans, form major portions of the population of Southern California, especially in Los Angeles, as well as the San Joaquin Valley. The city of Los Angeles is often said to be the largest Mexican community in the United States. Census records kept track of the growth since 1850, but Mexicans and Mexican-Americans have lived in California since Spanish Colonial times. However, the number and percentage population of Latinos living in California increased rapidly in the late 20th century. The result is that, today, Latinos are the largest ethnic group in Los Angeles County, at over 40 percent of the county's population. Latinos are predominantly concentrated in the older eastern and southern suburbs surrounding downtown Los Angeles and northern Long Beach, the southern/eastern San Fernando Valley, and the San Gabriel/Pomona Valleys. They also comprise sizable communities in Arvin, Bakersfield, Delano, El Monte, Fontana, Fresno, Indio, La Puente, Ontario, Oxnard, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego, San José, Santa Barbara, Santa Maria, Stockton, Vallejo and Yuba City. In Santa Ana in Orange County, Latinos comprise 75 percent of the population. Nearby Anaheim is over half Latino, and Orange County's population is 30-35 percent Latino.

text: The Imperial Valley on the U.S.-Mexican border is about 70–75% Latino; communities with many Latinos can also be found in Riverside County, especially at its eastern end, and the Coachella Valley. The Central Valley has many Mexican American migrant farm workers. Latinos are the majority in 14 counties: Colusa, Fresno, Glenn, Imperial, Kern, Kings, Madera, Merced, Monterey, Napa, San Benito, Santa Cruz, Tulare and Yolo counties.

text: Latinos make up at least 20% of the San Francisco Bay Area. Many live in San Mateo, Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties, as well in San Francisco. The Napa Valley and Salinas Valley have predominantly Latino communities established by migrant farm workers. San Jose is about 30-35 percent Latino, the largest Latino community in northern California, while the Mission District, San Francisco and Lower/West Oakland has barrios established by Mexican and Latin American immigrants. The Mexican American communities of East Los Angeles and Logan Heights, San Diego, as well the San Joaquin Valley are centers of historic Chicano and Latino cultures.

text: California also has the largest populations of Hispanics/Latinos in the country. Most of the state's Latinos have Mexican ancestry, having the largest Mexican population in the United States, making up about 31 percent of the state population. California has a large and diverse population, having the largest Central American, especially Salvadorans population in the United States. Guatemalan Americans are spread out in Southern California after previously centered in Los Angeles between 1970 and 2010. California also has many Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans, Honduran Americans, and Nicaraguan Americans, along with people of Brazilian, Chilean, Colombian, Peruvian and other South American ancestry. Los Angeles has had the United States' largest Central American community, as well as the largest Mexican American community, since the 1910s. In fact, the 1900 census record finds 319 to 619 out of 100,000 residents in the city of Los Angeles were "Spanish" or "Mexican". (see Demographics of Los Angeles). Nearly 31 percent of Los Angeles itself is of Mexican descent, having the largest Mexican population of any city in the United States.

text: In Mariposa County, there is a very small community of Californios or Spanish American people as they identify themselves, that dates back before the U.S. annexation of California. Hornitos is home to an estimated 1,000 people and many are "Californios". The community's "Spanish" Californio culture is closely linked with Mexico and other Latin American nations. Spanish colonial/Mexican/Latino influences was always a major part of California after it became part of the U.S. since 1848 and its statehood in 1850.[citation needed]

text: The state has a long history of established Asian American communities, including Chinese since the 1850s, Japanese since the 1880s, and Filipinos for over a century. A large wave of Asian immigration since 1965 brought in more Chinese along with Koreans and Southeast Asians after the Vietnam war ended in the late 1970s. South Asians are also a fast-growing group.

text: As of the 2010 Census there were a total of 17,941,286 respondents who claimed to be Asian American and Asian.[26] Out of these respondents in the United States,[27] 30.9% live in California, with 5,556,592 Asian Americans being counted by the 2010 Census.[28] This is a 1.5 million growth in population from the 2000 census, making Asian Americans 14.9 percent of the state's population.[29] Out of those almost 5.6 million Asian Americans in California there are 1,474,707 Filipinos, 1,349,111 Chinese, 647,589 Vietnamese, 590,445 Indians, 505,225 Koreans, 428,140 Japanese, 109,928 Taiwanese, 102,317 Cambodians, 91,224 Hmong, 69,303 Laotians, 67,707 Thais, 53,474 Pakistanis, 39,506 Borneons, Sumatrans, and Indonesians, 17,978 Burmese, 11,929 Sri Lankans, 10,494 Bangladeshis, 6,231 Nepalese, 5,595 Malaysians, 4,993 Mongolians, 1,513 Singaporeans, 1,377 Okinawans, and 750 Bhutanese.[28]

text: Filipino Americans are particularly numerous in Los Angeles, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Diego, San Mateo and Solano counties, and in southern California communities such as Artesia, Baldwin Park, Carson, Cerritos, Covina, West Covina, and the Eagle Rock district of Los Angeles. Around San Diego, many Filipinos live in the communities of Mira Mesa, National City, and Chula Vista. Delano near Bakersfield, other towns in the San Joaquin Valley, the Inland Empire of Riverside-San Bernardino, Coachella Valley-Imperial Valley region, Salinas, Stockton and Lathrop, and the Santa Maria/San Luis Obispo area also have large Filipino American populations. Daly City south of San Francisco has a large Filipino population and is the largest percentage wise in the United States. As of the 1980s, Filipinos have been the largest population of Asians in California.[30] Twenty percent of registered nurses, in 2013, in California are Filipino.[31]

text: Chinese Americans are numerous in San Francisco, Oakland, the East Bay, South Bay, the Central Coast of California, Sacramento, San Diego, and the San Gabriel Valley region of Los Angeles County. The San Francisco Bay Area has a greater concentration of Cantonese-speaking Chinese than anywhere in the United States. The Mexican border community of Calexico, California in addition to Mexicali has large numbers of Chinese Mexican Americans, that is, Mexican Americans of Chinese ancestry. Smaller Chinese communities can also be found in San Jacinto Valley, Lake Elsinore, and Victorville.

text: Southern California has perhaps the largest Taiwan-born Chinese American community in the U.S., particularly in the San Gabriel Valley (i.e. Walnut and Diamond Bar), Buena Park, Cerritos, West Covina, Irvine, communities in the South Bay, Los Angeles and southern Orange County. Many minority groups from China also live in California, for example, there are Tibetan, Mongolian and Uygur Americans concentrated in San Francisco, Oakland, San Jose, Orange County, and the Los Angeles/Long Beach area.

text: Large Korean American communities exist in the Koreatown of Los Angeles, the eastern San Gabriel Valley, the San Fernando Valley, Cerritos/Long Beach, South Bay, Los Angeles, northern Orange County and San Diego area. There is another large Korean American population in the San Francisco Bay Area, and Koreans are growing in number in the suburban Inland Empire region, in cities such as Chino Hills, Corona, Desert Hot Springs and Loma Linda south of San Bernardino. Since 1990, the Korean American and African American populations relocated westward and northward in the Los Angeles area.

text: The South Bay area and Little Tokyo have a large Japanese American community. Japanese Americans, however, are also concentrated in San Francisco and across the Bay Area, San Jose, the Salinas Valley and Santa Cruz County; and smaller communities in the Sacramento, Fresno, Bakersfield, Anaheim, San Diego, San Bernardino, Santa Barbara and Stockton areas. Despite the presence of Japanese goods stores, media outlets and restaurants in the state, most "Little Tokyos" and "Japantowns" were evacuated during the forced relocation of Japanese Americans during World War II (see Japanese American Internment). As a result, most Japanese Americans in urban areas do not reside in historical Japanese communities.

text: California has the largest American population of Southeast Asians, concentrated in the Los Angeles-Long Beach, Sacramento, and Fresno areas. This includes the Hmong and Vietnamese, including Chinese Vietnamese. Long Beach has one of the largest Cambodian American communities in the United States. The neighboring cities of Westminster and Garden Grove have the largest Vietnamese American community outside of Vietnam and are often dubbed "Little Saigon". Vietnamese and Cambodian immigrants also settled in the San Francisco Bay Area, especially San Jose, Santa Clara and Sunnyvale, as well across the San Joaquin Valley and in San Diego.

text: Over 6,000 Laotian Americans live in the Fresno area, including an even larger Hmong American community, the second-largest of its kind. Other Hmong colonies in the Central Valley of California and Northern California developed since the end of the Vietnam war (1975–79). California also has a Thai American community of over 250,000, concentrated in Southern California, with small Thai and Southeast Asian communities in Perris and Banning in the Inland Empire region. Los Angeles has the largest Thai population outside of Thailand and is also home to the world's first Thai Town. About 150,000 Indonesians live in Southern California, primarily the Los Angeles and San Diego areas.

text: California has the largest Indian American population in the U.S. Many live in the Los Angeles Metropolitan Area, San Diego, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The Los Angeles suburbs of Artesia and Cerritos have large Indian American communities. San Jose, Fremont, and other Silicon Valley cities have many Indian Americans who are employed in the high-tech industry. Many Indian Americans are in Central Valley cities such as Stockton, Bakersfield, Fresno, Yuba City, and the Imperial Valley. Most South Asians in California are Indian American, but there are also Pakistani Americans, Bangladeshi Americans, and Sri Lankan Americans (see Sinhalese and Tamils) esp. concentrated in the San Gabriel Valley (Covina Valley) of the Los Angeles area.

text: Over 50,000 Afghan Americans are concentrated in the East Bay primarily in Alameda County and its communities of Fremont and Hayward; Afghans also live throughout the state (esp. Orange County and Ventura County).

text: The state has 150,000 residents with Pacific Islander ancestry. Most, 80,000, are Native Hawaiians of measurable Polynesian ancestry; many also have Asian, European, or other ancestries. There are also 25,000 Samoan Americans originally from American Samoa or Western Samoa. Most live in Long Beach and the Los Angeles suburbs of Carson, Artesia, Cerritos, and Redondo Beach, Oceanside, and Upland. About 10,000 Chamorros from Guam and Northern Mariana Islands live in northern California, the largest Micronesian community in the mainland United States. An estimated 10,000 Tahitians from French Polynesia live in southern California.

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text: There are also many Palauans in southern California, specifically in the San Diego area, including Vista. Only 677 in Vista alone in the 2010 US Census. Members of the Palauan community often also have Malay, Indonesian, Micronesian, Melanesian, Japanese, and other east Asian ancestries. Many Chuukese or Trukese live in San Diego, while the original settlers on Truk Island are Spanish and German but most Truukese now are Japanese and Korean, then Filipino and some Chinese, and finally the arrival of American expatriates. Many came to the Oceanside area due to the military installations around the city, which has the oldest Polynesian or Pacific Islander community.

text: The state also has over 715,000 Arab Americans, with large communities in Alameda, Fresno, Imperial, Kern, Orange, San Bernardino, San Diego, Sacramento and Stanislaus counties. They represent all Arab and Middle Eastern nationalities, the most numerous being of Gaza and West Bank (see Palestinian Americans) followed by those from Syria (see Syrian Americans) and Lebanon (about half- 1.5 out of 3.1 million estimated- (see Lebanese Americans) live in California), Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates and Yemen. Arabs have resided in California since the 1920s, most notably in Orange County in the section of Little Arabia (Anaheim, California) and the San Diego area.

text: About 500,000 Iranian Americans live throughout Southern California, including about 20% of the population of Beverly Hills.[32] Iranian American communities also flourish in the San Fernando Valley, Orange County, San Diego, the Palm Springs area, and the San Joaquin Valley. The majority of Iranian Americans immigrated after the ouster of the pro-U.S. Shah regime of Iran in the late 1970s.

text: California also has the third largest Greek American population in the United States, behind New York and Massachusetts.

text: There is also large population of Assyrian/Chaldean descent living in the Central Valley, with large communities in Modesto, Ceres and Turlock, as well as throughout the Central Coast and the California Desert (i.e. the Coachella and Imperial valleys). San Diego has one of the largest concentrations of Chaldean immigrants in the United States.[33]

text: California is also home to 600,000 Armenian Americans, with many in Glendale north of Los Angeles, as well as a large community in Fresno. As of 1988 California had about 500,000 ethnic Armenians with over half of them living in Greater Los Angeles.[34]

text: Turkish Americans and Azerbaijani Americans form moderately-sized communities in both Los Angeles and San Francisco.

text: California has 2.3 million African Americans as of 2010, the largest population of Black or African Americans in the western U.S,[15] and the 5th largest Black population in the United States. Cities that have the largest share of African Americans and have historically been Black cultural centers include (11 largest in the state): Compton, Inglewood, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Oakland, Richmond, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego and Vallejo.

text: There are many other cities and towns in the state with sizeable African American populations. These include:

text: Berkeley, Dublin, East Palo Alto, Fairfield, Hayward, Marin City, Piedmont, San Leandro, and Suisun City. Bakersfield, Fresno, Merced, Modesto, and Stockton. Adelanto, Altadena, Apple Valley, California City, Carson, Corona, Desert Hot Springs, Fontana, Gardena, Hawthorne, Indio, Lakewood, Lancaster, Lynwood, Moreno Valley, National City, Oceanside, Palmdale, Palm Springs, Pasadena, Perris, Pomona, Rialto, Twentynine Palms, and Victorville.

text: African Americans are approximately 7 percent of the state population. The state percentage of African Americans has dropped in the 1990s and 2000s, though the state's overall number of African-Americans has increased in that time period. The black population in East and West Oakland and South Central Los Angeles - places where they held the majority for decades - has greatly decreased as the black middle class has relocated to nearby suburbs, including those in the Inland Empire and Antelope Valley in Southern California and the Sacramento metropolitan area in Northern California. Many African Americans have also moved to the South, where their grandparents may have come from in the "Great Migration" of the mid-20th century.

text: African Americans have made a contribution to the state's hip-hop and R&B music culture. African-American musical artists born and/or raised in California include: Snoop Dogg, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, E-40, Nate Dogg, Tupac Shakur, En Vogue, Tony! Toni! Tone!, Too Short, Eazy-E, N.W.A, Keyshia Cole, Digital Underground, JJ Fad, Barry White, The Pointer Sisters and Kendrick Lamar.

text: Also noted is California has small West Indian (Afro-Caribbean American) and African immigration from countries such as Cape Verde, Eritrea and Ethiopia (i.e. Little Ethiopia in West Los Angeles), Ghana, Jamaica, Kenya, Nigeria, Senegal, Somalia, South Africa (including White South Africans), Tanzania and Yemen across from the Horn of Africa. They established communities in Los Angeles known for a large Ethiopian community and Oakland/Berkeley (East Bay) as well Nuer refugees from South Sudan migrated to the Sacramento area; and the Cape Verdean community in Solano County and the Santa Clara Valley, and the San Diego area.

text: As of 2010, California's Native American population of 362,801 was the most of any state.[35] It also has the most Native American tribes, indigenous to the state or not, but the majority of known Californian Indian tribes became extinct in the late 19th century. The U.S. Census includes Latin American Indian, especially immigrants who belonged to indigenous peoples or who have Amerindian heritage from North and South America.

text: The Cherokee Nation is the largest tribe in the state with a population of 110,000, although the number of Cherokee descendants may surpass 600,000 according to demographers. They are often descendants of Dust Bowl refugees in the 1930s and 1940s who migrated to the state's farming counties and urban areas for jobs. The largest urban American Indian communities are Los Angeles/Long Beach, San Francisco/Oakland, Sacramento, and San Diego areas.[citation needed]

text: California also has significant populations of the Apache, Choctaw, Creek, Hopi, Zuni, Navajo, Blackfeet, Shoshone, Paiute, Pueblos, Cahuilla and Chumash tribes. The Cahuilla in the Coachella Valley have profited from real estate land leases, and much of Indio and Palm Springs are tribal-owned lands under legal tribal jurisdiction.[36]

text:
Estimated ancestries of Californians[37]

[show]Ancestry[fn 1]
2013 population
Margin of error (+/-)

Total
43,071,506
33,741

Afghan
38,136
3,075

Albanian
4,792
681

Alsatian
730
163

American
1,124,070
10,956

Arab:
277,573
6,191

Egyptian[fn 2]
45,540
2,737

Iraqi[fn 2]
20,551
1,969

Jordanian[fn 2]
14,142
1,731

Lebanese[fn 2]
57,008
2,372

Moroccan[fn 2]
8,953
959

Palestinian[fn 2]
16,340
1,571

Syrian[fn 2]
23,298
1,749

Arab[fn 2]
44,851
2,645

Arab other[fn 2]
48,890
2,692

Armenian
258,260
5,292

Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac
35,690
2,687

Australian
18,803
1,253

Austrian
77,113
2,205

Basque
18,413
1,252

Belgian
25,581
1,354

Brazilian
34,776
1,964

British
146,221
3,425

Bulgarian
13,093
1,304

Cajun
3,752
858

Canadian
88,244
2,687

Carpatho Rusyn
462
151

Celtic
5,910
593

Croatian
48,160
1,859

Cypriot
557
204

Czech
88,563
2,557

Czechoslovakian
23,097
1,164

Danish
182,221
3,432

Dutch
392,589
6,088

Eastern European
66,301
2,688

English
2,330,057
15,509

Estonian
4,210
636

European
542,475
8,588

Finnish
50,937
2,012

French[fn 3]
726,569
8,629

French Canadian
111,298
2,978

German
3,315,493
16,348

German Russian
2,094
328

Greek
131,110
3,050

Guyanese
2,947
468

Hungarian
125,280
3,639

Icelander
6,169
777

Iranian
213,661
6,417

Irish
2,612,782
13,767

Israeli
28,639
1,889

Italian
1,525,214
12,309

Latvian
10,974
916

Lithuanian
48,883
1,811

Luxemburger
3,040
387

Macedonian
3,093
471

Maltese
7,883
1,035

New Zealander
5,047
763

Northern European
46,409
2,030

Norwegian
394,056
5,827

Pennsylvania German
6,217
609

Polish
504,770
7,165

Portuguese
354,823
5,044

Romanian
66,942
2,927

Russian
433,384
6,662

Scandinavian
64,166
2,299

Scotch-Irish
240,268
4,345

Scottish
520,575
7,414

Serbian
17,739
1,434

Slavic
11,335
948

Slovak
24,732
1,564

Slovene
8,628
727

Soviet Union
195
111

Subsaharan African:
269,781
7,329

Cape Verdean[fn 4]
2,549
532

Ethiopian[fn 4]
28,007
2,467

Ghanaian[fn 4]
3,392
647

Kenyan[fn 4]
4,713
970

Liberian[fn 4]
1,069
400

Nigerian[fn 4]
25,498
2,414

Senegalese[fn 4]
585
296

Sierra Leonean[fn 4]
537
223

Somalian[fn 4]
7,066
1,440

South African[fn 4]
10,095
917

Sudanese[fn 4]
2,095
510

Ugandan[fn 4]
1,694
516

Zimbabwean[fn 4]
585
244

African[fn 4]
174,347
6,255

Other Subsaharan African[fn 4]
7,549
1,148

Swedish
425,092
5,332

Swiss
103,574
2,660

Turkish
23,206
1,214

Ukrainian
99,583
4,046

Welsh
168,463
3,482

West Indian[fn 5]
79,125
727

Bahamian[fn 6]
596
215

Barbadian[fn 6]
1,362
308

Belizean[fn 6]
21,331
1,459

Bermudan[fn 6]
370
170

British West Indian[fn 6]
1,858
485

Dutch West Indian[fn 6]
1,960
329

Haitian[fn 6]
7,363
1,046

Jamaican[fn 6]
28,675
1,877

Trinidadian and Tobagonian[fn 6]
5,357
716

U.S. Virgin Islander[fn 6]
756
288

West Indian[fn 6]
9,221
1,247

Other West Indian[fn 6]
276
124

Yugoslavian
33,363
1,830

Other groups
24,394,120
29,987

footnotes =

Jump up ^ Underlined entries have sub-ancestries
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i Arab sub-ancestry
Jump up ^ except Basque
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o Subsaharan African sub-ancestry
Jump up ^ except Hispanic groups
^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h i j k l West Indian sub-ancestry

Estimated ancestries of Californians

[show]Ancestry
2010 Population[38]
Percentage of Total Population

White, not Hispanic or Latino
15,763,625
42.3%

Hispanic or Latino (of any race)
14,013,719
37.6%

Mexican
11,423,146
30.6%

Salvadoran
573,956
1.5%

Guatemalan
332,737
0.8%

Puerto Rican
189,945
0.5%

Colombian
164,416
0.4%

Spaniard
142,194
0.3%

Nicaraguan
100,790
0.2%

Peruvian
91,511
0.2%

Cuban
88,607
0.2%

Honduran
72,795
0.1%

Argentinean
44,410
0.1%

Ecuadorian
35,750
0.09%

Chilean
24,006
0.06%

Costa Rican
22,469
0.06%

Panamanian
17,768
0.04%

Bolivian
13,351
0.03%

Dominican
11,455
0.03%

Venezuelan
11,100
0.02%

Uruguayan
4,110
0.01%

Paraguayan
1,228
0.003%

Asian
5,556,592
14.9%

Filipino
1,474,707
3.9%

Chinese (except Taiwanese)
1,349,111
3.6%

Vietnamese
647,589
1.7%

Indian
590,445
1.5%

Korean
505,225
1.3%

Japanese
428,014
1.1%

Okinawan
1,377
0.003%

Taiwanese
109,928
0.2%

Cambodian
102,317
0.2%

Hmong
91,224
0.2%

Laotian
69,303
0.2%

Thai
67,707
0.1%

Pakistani
53,474
0.1%

Indonesian
39,506
0.1%

Sri Lankan
11,929
0.03%

Bangladeshi
10,494
0.02%

Nepalese
6,231
0.01%

Malaysian
5,595
0.01%

Mongolian
4,993
0.01%

Singaporean
1,513
0.004%

Black or African American
2,683,914
7.2%

Multiracial (two or more races)
1,815,384
4.8%

American Indian and Alaska Native
723,225
1.9%

Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander
286,145
0.7%

Polynesian
157,104
0.4%

Native Hawaiian
74,932
0.2%

Samoan
60,876
0.1%

Tongan]
22,893
0.06%

Micronesian
49,197
0.1%

Guamanian or Chamorro
44,425
0.1%

Melanesian
24,203
0.06%

Fijian
24,059
0.06%

Total
37,253,956
100%

text:
Population of California according to racial/ethnic group 1960–2010[39][40]

Racial/ethnic
group
Census 1960
Census 1970
Census 1980
Census 1990
Census 2000
Census 2010

Number
%
Number
%
Number
%
Number
%
Number
%
Number
%

Non-Hispanic Whites
14,455,230
92.0
17,761,032
89.0
15,763,992
66.6
17,029,126
57.2
15,816,790
46.7
14,938,836
40.1

Hispanics
4,541,300
19.2
7,687,938
25.8
10,966,556
32.4
14,007,487
37.6

Blacks
883,861
5.6
1,400,143
7.0
1,819,281
7.7
2,208,801
7.4
2,181,926
6.4
2,309,745
6.2

Asians
318,376
2.0
552,364
2.8
1,819,281
5.3
2,845,659
9.6
3,697,513
10.9
4,843,014
13.0

American Indians and Alaska Natives
39,014
0.2
91,018
0.5
201,369
0.9
242,164
0.8
333,346
1.0
372,539
1.0

text: Birth data[edit]

text: Note: Births in table do not add up, because Hispanics are counted both by their ethnicity and by their race, giving a higher overall number.

text:
Live Births by Ethnicity of Mother

Ethnicity
2013[41]
2014[42]
2015[43]

Hispanic
238,496 (48.2%)
237,539 (47.2%)
234,237 (47.6%)

White
143,531 (29.0%)
144,318 (28.7%)
141,592 (28.8%)

Asian
76,424 (15.4%)
84,224 (16.7%)
80,269 (16.3%)

African
31,977 (6.5%)
31,654 (6.3%)
30,546 (6.2%)

Native
3,590 (0.7%)
3,509 (0.7%)
3,510 (0.7%)

Total California
494,705 (100%)
502,879 (100%)
491,748 (100%)

text: Languages[edit]

text:
Top 10 Non-English Languages Spoken in California (as of 2010)[44]

Language
Percentage of population

Spanish
28.46%

Chinese (including Cantonese and Mandarin)
2.80%

Tagalog
2.20%

Vietnamese
1.43%

Korean
1.08%

Armenian and Persian (tied)
0.52%

Japanese
0.43%

Russian
0.42%

Hindi and Arabic (tied)
0.38%

French
0.36%

text: As of 2010, 20,379,282 of California residents age 5 and older spoke English at home as a primary language, while 10,672,610 spoke Spanish, 1,231,425 Chinese (which includes Cantonese and Mandarin), 796,451 Tagalog, 559,932 Vietnamese, 367,523 Korean, 192,980 Armenian, and Persian was spoken as a main language by 203,770 of the population over the age of five. In total, 14,644,136 of California's population age 5 and older spoke a mother language other than English.[44]

text: Comparatively, according to the 2007 American Community Survey, 42.6 percent of California's population older than five spoke a language other than English at home, with 73 percent of those also speaking English well or very well, while 9.8 did not speak English at all.[45]

text: California had the highest concentration of Vietnamese or Chinese speakers in the United States, second highest concentration of Korean or Spanish speakers in the United States, and third highest concentration of Tagalog speakers in the United States.[45] California was historically one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the world, and is home to more than 70 indigenous languages derived from 64 root languages in 6 language families.[46][47] A survey conducted between 2007 and 2009 identified 23 different indigenous languages of Mexico that are spoken among California farmworkers.[48]

text: Over 200 languages are known to be spoken and read in California, with Spanish used as the state's "alternative" language. California has more than 100 indigenous languages, making California one of the most linguistically diverse areas in the world. All of California's indigenous languages are endangered, although there are now efforts toward language revitalization.[note 1]

text: The official language of California has been English since the passage of Proposition 63 in 1986.[49] However, many state, city, and local government agencies still continue to print official public documents in numerous languages.[50] For example, the California Department of Motor Vehicles offers the written exam for the standard C Class driver's license in 31 languages along with English, and the audio exam in 11 languages.[51] The politics of language is a major political issue in the state, especially in regard to language policy controlling the teaching and official use of immigrant languages.

text: As a result of the state's increasing diversity and migration from other areas across the country and around the globe, linguists began noticing a noteworthy set of emerging characteristics of spoken English in California since the late 20th Century. This dialect, known as California English, has a vowel shift and several other phonological processes that are different from the dialects used in other regions of the country.[52]

text: Religion[edit]

text:
Religion in California (2014)[53]

Religion

Percent

Protestant

32%

Roman Catholic

28%

No religion

27%

Judaism

3.2%

Buddhism

2%

Hinduism

2%

Islam

1%

Mormons

1%

text: California has the most Roman Catholics in the United States, ahead of New York State, as well as large Protestant, non-religious, Jewish, and Muslim populations. It also has the largest Mormon population outside of Utah.[54] The state also has a large American Jewish community, the largest in the western U.S., mainly concentrated in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, San Francisco, Oakland, Sacramento and Palm Springs. It also has large Muslim communities in west Los Angeles, San Diego, Beverly Hills, Orange County, Santa Clara County, and the Modesto area. Religions indigenous to California includes LaVeyan Satanism.[55]

text: Most Roman Catholics in California are of Mexican, other Hispanic, Irish, Italian and Filipino ancestry. The population of Catholic Californians is rapidly growing due to the influx of Latin American and Filipino immigrants. In the state, Roman Catholicism is highly represented among non-Hispanic European-Americans, but less represented among non-Hispanic African-Americans. Protestantism is the majority Christian denomination in non-Hispanic black and white groups.

text: The largest Christian denominations in California in 2000 were the Roman Catholic Church with 10,079,310; the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints with 529,575; and the Southern Baptist Convention with 471,119. Jewish congregations had 994,000 adherents, or 3% of the Californian population.[56]

text: Hinduism, Buddhism, Shintō, Sikhism, and Taoism were introduced in part by Asian immigrants. As the twentieth century came to a close, forty percent of all Buddhists in America resided in Southern California. The Los Angeles metropolitan area has become unique in the Buddhist world as the only place where representative organizations of every major school of Buddhism can be found in a single urban center.[57][verification needed] The City of Ten Thousand Buddhas in Northern California and Hsi Lai Temple in Southern California are two of the largest Buddhist temples in the Western Hemisphere.

text: California has the highest Hindu population in the United States,[58] most of them Indian Americans.[59] Many of the prominent Hindu temples including the Malibu Hindu Temple are located in California.

text: With almost one million Jews, California has the highest number of Jews of any state except New York. Many of these Jews live in the West Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley regions of Los Angeles. At the present time, one of California's Senators, Dianne Feinstein, is Jewish. Historic synagogues include Beth Jacob Congregation (Beverly Hills, California), Congregation B'nai Israel (Sacramento, California), and Temple Israel (Stockton, California). Chabad,[60] The Rohr Jewish Learning Institute,[61] and Aish HaTorah are active in California.

text: California also has the largest Muslim community in the United States, an estimated one percent of the population, mostly residing in Southern California. Approximately 100,000 Muslims reside in San Diego.[citation needed]

text: California has more members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Temples than any state except Utah.[62] Latter-day Saints (Mormons) have played important roles in the settlement of California throughout the state's history. For example, a group of a few hundred Mormon converts from the Northeastern United States and Europe arrived at what would become San Francisco in the 1840s aboard the ship Brooklyn, more than doubling the population of the small town. A group of Mormons also established the city of San Bernardino in Southern California in 1851.[54] According to the LDS Church 2014 statistics, 780,200 Mormons reside in the state of California, attending almost 1400 congregations statewide.[54]

text: The Seventh-day Adventist Church is headquartered in Loma Linda in San Bernardino county 60 miles east of Los Angeles, where the church members form the majority of the town's population. The SDA church there has a university, a free hospital and a TV station (3ABN or the 3 Angels Broadcasting Network). Seventh-day Adventists are vegetarians, so you would notice there are no fast food restaurants within the town limits. The town is known for a large number of centenarians who live over 100 years of age.[63]

text: A Pew Research Center survey revealed, however, that California is less religious than the rest of the United States: 62% of Californians say they are "absolutely certain" of the belief "in God or a universal spirit", while in the nation 71% say so. The survey also revealed that 48% of Californians say religion is "very important", while the figure for the U.S. in general is 56%.[64] The state's non-religious, which consists of atheists, agnostics, and non-affiliated theists, is one of the fastest-growing groups in the state.[citation needed]


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text: American Idol (season 5)

text: Regional auditions[edit]

text: Auditions were held in seven cities in the summer and fall of 2005.[1][2] An audition was originally planned for Memphis, Tennessee but that was canceled due to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort that was taking place in the city,[3] and replaced by Las Vegas, Nevada and Greensboro, North Carolina.[4]

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text:
Episode Air Date
Audition City
Date
First Audition Venue
Callback Date
Callback Venue
Golden Tickets

January 17, 2006
Chicago, Illinois
September 16, 2005
Soldier Field
September 20, 2005
W Hotel[5]
34

January 18, 2006
Denver, Colorado
September 11, 2005
Invesco Field at Mile High

Colorado Convention Center
37

January 24, 2006
Greensboro, North Carolina
October 3, 2005
Greensboro Coliseum
October 6, 2005
Marriott Downtown
33

January 25, 2006
San Francisco, California
August 18, 2005
Cow Palace

Parc 55 Hotel
18

January 31, 2006
Las Vegas, Nevada
October 10–11, 2005
Las Vegas Convention Center
October 12–13, 2005
Renaissance Las Vegas[6]
11

February 1, 2006
Austin, Texasa
August 25–26, 2005
Frank Erwin Center
September 28, 2005
Parc 55 Hotel, San Francisco
12

February 7, 2006
Boston, Massachusetts
August 31, 2005
Gillette Stadium
October 27, 2005
Seaport Hotel and World Trade Center[7]
28

Total Tickets to Hollywood
175

tag: table

text: ^a Later stages of the Austin auditions were held in San Francisco due to Hurricane Katrina which caused large number of evacuees to be relocated in Texas.[8] The show however made no mention of the venue switch and presented the Austin audition as having taken place entirely in Austin.[9]

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text: Unlike season four, no guest judges were involved during the auditions. The season used the same rules as season four.[10]

text: One notable auditioner this season was Paula Goodspeed, a fervent fan of Paula Abdul, who auditioned in Austin.[11] In 2008, Goodspeed made headlines when she committed suicide outside Abdul's home.[12] Abdul later claimed that she had objected beforehand to Goodspeed being at the audition because she knew Goodspeed and had been frightened by her past behavior, but the producers overrode her objection.[13] The producers Ken Warwick and Nigel Lythgoe however denied being aware of her fears or that they would put her in danger.[14][15]

text: In Las Vegas, an auditioner Tora Woloshin gained a golden ticket to Hollywood but was disqualified just before she was due to go to Hollywood for unspecified reasons. She later appeared on the first season of X-Factor.[16]

text: Hollywood week[edit]

text: The Hollywood semi-final rounds were held at the Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, California consisting of 175 contestants. The first round of semi-finals consisted of solo a cappella performance with each contestant choosing one song out of twelve that were given to each contestant two weeks in advance. Those who did not impress the judges were sent home the following day. After the singles round, the contestants were separated into four groups, with three groups going through (with 44 contestants chosen). In the Pasadena Civic Center, each were individually taken via elevator walking the infamous "mile" to the judges station where the verdict if they would be chosen or not was announced. Twenty were cut and the final twenty-four (12 men and 12 woman) were selected.

text: Semifinals[edit]

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text: The live show portion of the semifinals began on February 21, 2006, with the names announced on February 15, 2006. There were three live shows each week for the three weeks of the semifinals. There were no format changes from season four which featured 12 male singers and 12 female singers with two of each being eliminated each week.

text: The semifinalists were announced February 15, 2006. The following are semifinalists who did not reach the finals.

text: Female semifinalists[edit]

text:
Ayla Brown (born July 28, 1988) is from Wrentham, Massachusetts. She originally auditioned in Boston, singing "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
Kinnik Sky (born May 13, 1977) is from Duluth, Georgia. She auditioned in Greensboro. She was grouped with Nicole Turk, Celeste Scalone and Tyra Schwartz during the group rounds.
Heather Cox (born November 16, 1983) is from Jonesville, North Carolina. She auditioned in Denver. Grouped with Halicia Thompson and Kellie Pickler during Hollywood group performances.
Brenna Gethers (born October 7, 1980) is from Mount Vernon, New York. She auditioned in Boston, and was known for her "catty" attitude. She became the lead singer for Bomb Squad, a funk-rock band that won an American Music Award for Best New Music in 2003.[17]
Stephanie "Stevie" Scott (born May 22, 1986) is from Fair Oaks, California. She auditioned in Denver. She sang "Emotions" with Hannah Freeman and Paris Bennett during their group performance in Hollywood. She was eliminated on February 23, 2006 along with Becky O'Donohue, Bobby Bennett, and Patrick Hall. She made a cameo appearance on the Top 6 performance show of American Idol on April 25, 2006. In 2014, she became the lead singer of Indie Pop band Machineheart, best known for their debut single, "Circles." [18]
Rebecca "Becky" O'Donohue (born July 13, 1980) is from Dobbs Ferry, New York. Her original audition was in Boston with her twin sister (who did not sing due to recent throat surgery). Simon Cowell praised her looks, but said no to her voice. She was let through to Hollywood by Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul.

text: Male semifinalists[edit]

text:
Gedeon McKinney (born October 1, 1988) is from Memphis, Tennessee. He intended to audition in Memphis, but the auditions there were canceled due to the city's role in relief efforts for Hurricane Katrina. He raised funds to travel to the Chicago auditions by putting on a benefit concert. His elimination was a surprise to many, including Simon Cowell, who had criticized him previously. McKinney's father, Tony McKinney, also a performing artist, died in December 2005 before the show aired.
William "Will" Makar (born March 2, 1989, in The Woodlands, Texas) attended high school at The Woodlands College Park High School. In high school, Will starred in several musical productions, including The Woodlands College Park High School Musical in January 2006, the performance of which began the day after the airing of the his American Idol audition and was covered by local media. He has also performed for Presidents Clinton and Bush and with singer Celine Dion as part of the Houston Children's Chorus. He has performed the National Anthem at many sporting events and was also a member of the band Last Born. During the Hollywood rounds, he performed Fly Me to the Moon with David Radford and Kevin Covais. Will was signed to Double Deal Brand Records, which also signed fellow Top 16 semifinalist Ayla Brown, and released his debut single titled "I Won't Make It Out" on iTunes on April 27, 2007.
José "Sway" Penala (born January 23, 1978) is from South San Francisco, California, where he also had his audition for the show. He was the only Asian-American who made it to the semifinals that season. He has performed with such groups as DnH and 6th Day. When he competed, on stage, Penala often wore a Fedora hat and coat and military dog tags. He developed friendships with Elliott Yamin, Taylor Hicks, and Chris Daughtry during the season. Elliott was also his Hollywood Week group mate and later his roommate.
David Radford (born March 22, 1988, in Crystal Lake, Illinois) was a high school senior at Crystal Lake Central High School.[19] In addition to singing, David plays the trumpet. He originally auditioned in Chicago.
Patrick Hall (born September 24, 1977) is from Gravette, Arkansas, and was seen for the first time in Hollywood, California. During the Hollywood rounds, Simon Cowell called him 'very likeable', and compared him to Clay Aiken. He received many positive comments during these rounds. To separate himself from the Clay Aiken comparison, however, he chose to perform "Come to My Window" in the first week of the Top 24. He was eliminated that week.
Bobby Bennett, Jr. (born June 4, 1986) is from Denver, Colorado, where his audition was held. He is most known for his rousing rendition of the song "Copacabana" and was named the "showman" of the semifinalists. He also made an appearance in the March 21 episode on which Barry Manilow performed.

text: Top 24[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Mandisa
"Never"(Heart)
Safe

2
Kellie Pickler
"How Far"(Martina McBride)
Safe

3
Becky O'Donohue
"Because the Night"(Patti Smith)
Eliminated

4
Ayla Brown
"Reflection"(Christina Aguilera)
Safe

5
Paris Bennett
"Midnight Train to Georgia"(Cissy Houston)
Safe

6
Stevie Scott
"To Where You Are"(Josh Groban)
Eliminated

7
Brenna Gethers
"You Are the Sunshine of My Life"(Stevie Wonder)
Safe

8
Heather Cox
"When You Tell Me That You Love Me"(Diana Ross)
Safe

9
Melissa McGhee
"When the Lights Go Down"(Faith Hill)
Safe

10
Lisa Tucker
"I Am Changing"(Jennifer Holiday)
Safe

11
Kinnik Sky
"Get Here" (Oleta Adams)
Safe

12
Katharine McPhee
"Since I Fell for You" (Ella Johnson)
Safe

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Patrick Hall
"Come to My Window"(Melissa Etheridge)
Eliminated

2
David Radford
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love"(Queen)
Safe

3
Bucky Covington
"Simple Man"(Lynyrd Skynyrd)
Safe

4
Will Makar
"I Want You Back"(The Jackson 5)
Safe

5
Sway Penala
"Reasons"(Earth Wind & Fire)
Safe

6
Chris Daughtry
"Wanted Dead or Alive"(Bon Jovi)
Safe

7
Kevin Covais
"One Last Cry"(Brian McKnight)
Safe

8
Gedeon McKinney
"Shout"(The Isley Brothers)
Safe

9
Elliott Yamin
"If You Really Love Me"(Stevie Wonder)
Safe

10
Bobby Bennet
"Copacabana"(Barry Manilow)
Eliminated

11
Ace Young
"Father Figure" (George Michael)
Safe

12
Taylor Hicks
"Levon" (Elton John)
Safe

text: Top 20[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Katharine McPhee
"All in Love Is Fair"(Stevie Wonder)
Safe

2
Kinnik Sky
"Here for the Party"(Gretchen Wilson)
Bottom 3

3
Lisa Tucker
"Who's Lovin' You"(The Miracles)
Safe

4
Melissa McGhee
"Why Haven't I Heard from You"(Reba McEntire)
Safe

5
Heather Cox
"Hero"(Mariah Carey)
Eliminated

6
Brenna Gethers
"Last Dance"(Donna Summer)
Eliminated

7
Paris Bennett
"Wind Beneath My Wings"(Roger Whittaker)
Safe

8
Ayla Brown
"I Want You to Need Me"(Celine Dion)
Safe

9
Kellie Pickler
"Something to Talk About"(Bonnie Raitt)
Safe

10
Mandisa
"Cry"(Angie Aparo)
Safe

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Taylor Hicks
"Easy"(The Commodores)
Safe

2
Elliot Yamin
"Moody's Mood for Love"(James Moody)
Safe

3
Ace Young
"If You're Not the One"(Daniel Bedingfield)
Safe

4
Gedeon McKinney
"A Change Is Gonna Come"(Sam Cooke)
Safe

5
Kevin Covais
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine"(The Miracles)
Bottom 3

6
Sway Penala
"Overjoyed"(Stevie Wonder)
Eliminated

7
Will Makar
"Lady"(Kenny Rogers)
Safe

8
Bucky Covington
"The Thunder Rolls"(Garth Brooks)
Safe

9
David Radford
"The Way You Look Tonight"(Fred Astaire)
Eliminated

10
Chris Daughtry
"Hemorrhage (In My Hands)"(Fuel)
Safe

text: Top 16[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Paris Bennett
"Conga"(Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine)
Safe

2
Lisa Tucker
"Here's Where I Stand"(Tiffany Taylor)
Safe

3
Melissa McGhee
"What About Love"(Heart)
Safe

4
Kinnik Sky
"If I Ain't Got You"(Alicia Keys)
Eliminated

5
Katharine McPhee
"Think"(Aretha Franklin)
Safe

6
Ayla Brown
"Unwritten"(Natasha Bedingfield)
Eliminated

7
Mandisa
"I'm Every Woman"(Chaka Khan)
Safe

8
Kellie Pickler
"I'm the Only One"(Melissa Etheridge)
Safe

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Gedeon McKinney
"When a Man Loves a Woman"(Percy Sledge)
Eliminated

2
Chris Daughtry
"Broken"(Seether)
Safe

3
Kevin Covais
"Vincent"(Don McLean)
Safe

4
Bucky Covington
"Wave on Wave"(Pat Green)
Safe

5
Will Makar
"How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)"(Marvin Gaye)
Eliminated

6
Taylor Hicks
"Takin' It to the Streets"(The Doobie Brothers)
Safe

7
Elliott Yamin
"Heaven"(Bryan Adams)
Safe

8
Ace Young
"Butterflies"(Michael Jackson)
Safe

text: Top 12 finalists[edit]

text:
Taylor Hicks

Taylor Hicks is from Birmingham, Alabama. He is gray-haired and performed "A Change Is Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke at his original audition in Las Vegas. At the first audition, the judges were surprised by his appearance. He performed Bill Withers' "Ain't No Sunshine" in the Hollywood round. He is one of the eight winners in American Idol history to never be in the bottom three. He won the competition on May 24. At 29 years 229 days at the time of the finale, he is the oldest winner in American Idol history.

Katharine McPhee

Katharine McPhee is from Los Angeles, California. Her mother is a vocal coach. She auditioned in San Francisco with Billie Holiday's "God Bless the Child", and Randy Jackson said her audition was the best he'd heard yet that season. In the Hollywood round she performed Dionne Warwick's "I'll Never Love This Way Again", and "I Can't Help Myself" for the group round, "My Funny Valentine" for the last solo. At the end of the first semifinal round, Simon Cowell said that he had heard four very good singers that evening and that McPhee was the best among them. McPhee was the runner-up on American Idol as announced on the May 24 finale.

Elliott Yamin

Elliott Yamin was born in Los Angeles, California, and grew up in Richmond, Virginia. He started singing at the age of five and did not have any formal training. He auditioned for American Idol in Boston. In the Hollywood week, he performed Rascal Flatts' Bless the Broken Road for the first solo, The Shoop Shoop Song for the group round. After his first semifinal performance, Simon Cowell said that he was potentially the best male vocalist in American Idol history, reprising his praise on Top 6 week after Yamin's "A Song for You", calling it a vocal masterclass; also, in the second round of the semifinals, Randy Jackson gave Yamin a standing ovation after his rendition of "Moody's Mood for Love". Yamin finished in third place in one of the closest outcomes in Idol history where less than 1% separated the votes of all top three contestants.

Chris Daughtry

Chris Daughtry is a former car service worker from McLeansville, North Carolina. During the audition round, he was profiled as a "Rocker Dad." He originally auditioned in Denver with Joe Cocker's The Letter (originally by The Box Tops). During the Hollywood week, he performed Samantha Sang's Emotion in the group round. He was eliminated at Top 4 in a surprise result.

Paris Bennett, from Fayetteville, Georgia, is the granddaughter of Grammy Award winner Ann Nesby. Her mother and grandmother are a part of the Grammy-winning group, Sounds of Blackness. She sang "Cowboy Take Me Away" by The Dixie Chicks at her original audition in Greensboro. In the Hollywood rounds, she performed LeAnn Rimes's Can't Fight the Moonlight for her solo, and Samantha Sang's Emotion for the group round.

Kellie Pickler

Kellie Pickler is from Albemarle, North Carolina. She was profiled as a roller-skating waitress. Her mother left when she was two and her father has had numerous legal problems; he is now free. Pickler lived with her grandfather and originally auditioned in Greensboro. She was never in the bottom three until she was eliminated.

Ace Young

Ace Young (who goes by his middle name) is from Denver where he auditioned. At that time, Randy Jackson called him one of the best he'd seen so far this season. In the Hollywood week, he performed Shai's If I Ever Fall in Love for the solo, and with Daughtry in the group round Samantha Sang's Emotion. After he sang "Father Figure" in the semifinals, Simon Cowell said that Young had the 'X-Factor' (a reference to another RTL talent show, in the UK). Young had been singing since age nine and had voice lessons.

Bucky Covington

Bucky Covington is from Rockingham, North Carolina. He auditioned in Greensboro. He has an identical twin brother named Rocky.

Mandisa

Mandisa is from Antioch, Tennessee. She had a successful original audition in Chicago, Illinois, where she performed Alicia Keys's Fallin'. Afterwards Simon Cowell made jokes about her size, but he later apologized after being confronted by Miss Hundley. In the Hollywood week, She performed Freda Payne's Band of Gold in the group round. Like Pickler, she was never in the bottom 3 until her elimination.

Lisa Tucker

Lisa Tucker was 16 years old at the time of the show, and was the youngest finalist of this season. She is from Anaheim, California, and she auditioned in Denver with Whitney Houston's One Moment in Time. Simon Cowell called her the "best 16-year-old" ever to audition on the show at the time of her original Denver audition. She was also a runner-up on Star Search but lost to Tiffany Evans.

Kevin Covais

Kevin Covais was 16 years old at the time of the show, and is from Levittown, New York. For his audition in Boston, he sang "You Raise Me Up". In the Hollywood round he performed Shai's If I Ever Fall in Love in the solo. Viewers gave him the nickname "Chicken Little".

Melissa McGhee

Melissa McGhee is from Tampa, Florida. She auditioned in Denver, Colorado. She sang "Can't Fight the Moonlight" by LeAnn Rimes for her audition. She had not sung on camera until her first week in the top 24.

text: Finals[edit]

text: Top 12 – Stevie Wonder[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Ace Young
"Do I Do"
Bottom 3

2
Kellie Pickler
"Blame It on the Sun"
Safe

3
Elliott Yamin
"Knocks Me Off My Feet"
Safe

4
Mandisa
"Don't You Worry 'bout a Thing"
Safe

5
Bucky Covington
"Superstition"
Safe

6
Melissa McGhee
"Lately"
Eliminated

7
Lisa Tucker
"Signed, Sealed, Delivered I'm Yours"
Bottom 2

8
Kevin Covais
"Part-Time Lover"
Safe

9
Katharine McPhee
"Until You Come Back to Me"
Safe

10
Taylor Hicks
"Living for the City"
Safe

11
Paris Bennett
"All I Do"
Safe

12
Chris Daughtry
"Higher Ground"
Safe

text: Top 11 – 1950s[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Mandisa
"I Don't Hurt Anymore"(Hank Snow)
Safe

2
Bucky Covington
"Oh, Boy!"(Buddy Holly)
Bottom 2

3
Paris Bennett
"Fever"(Little Willie John)
Safe

4
Chris Daughtry
"I Walk the Line"(Johnny Cash)
Safe

5
Katharine McPhee
"Come Rain or Come Shine"(Sy Oliver)
Safe

6
Taylor Hicks
"Not Fade Away"(The Crickets featuring Buddy Holly)
Safe

7
Lisa Tucker
"Why Do Fools Fall in Love?"Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers
Bottom 3

8
Kevin Covais
"When I Fall in Love"(Doris Day)
Eliminated

9
Elliott Yamin
"Teach Me Tonight"(The DeCastro Sisters)
Safe

10
Kellie Pickler
"Walkin' After Midnight"(Patsy Cline)
Safe

11
Ace Young
"In the Still of the Night" (The Five Satins)
Safe

text: Top 10 – 2000s[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Lisa Tucker
"Because of You"(Kelly Clarkson)
Eliminated

2
Kellie Pickler
"Suds in the Bucket"(Sara Evans)
Safe

3
Ace Young
"Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me)"(Train)
Bottom 3

4
Taylor Hicks
"Trouble"(Ray LaMontagne)
Safe

5
Mandisa
"Shackles (Praise You)"(Mary Mary)
Safe

6
Chris Daughtry
"What If"(Creed)
Safe

7
Katharine McPhee
"The Voice Within"(Christina Aguilera)
Bottom 2

8
Bucky Covington
"Real Good Man"(Tim McGraw)
Safe

9
Paris Bennett
"Work It Out"(Beyoncé)
Safe

10
Elliott Yamin
"I Don't Want to Be"(Gavin DeGraw)
Safe

text: Top 9 – Country[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Taylor Hicks
"Take Me Home, Country Roads"(John Denver)
Safe

2
Mandisa
"Any Man of Mine"(Shania Twain)
Eliminated

3
Elliott Yamin
"If Tomorrow Never Comes"(Garth Brooks)
Bottom 2

4
Paris Bennett
"How Do I Live"(LeAnn Rimes)
Bottom 3

5
Ace Young
"Tonight I Wanna Cry"(Keith Urban)
Safe

6
Kellie Pickler
"Fancy"(Bobbie Gentry)
Safe

7
Chris Daughtry
"Making Memories of Us"(Keith Urban)
Safe

8
Katharine McPhee
"Bringing Out the Elvis in Me"(Faith Hill)
Safe

9
Bucky Covington
"Best I Ever Had (Grey Sky Morning)"(Vertical Horizon)
Safe

text: Top 8 – Queen[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Bucky Covington
"Fat Bottomed Girls"
Eliminated

2
Ace Young
"We Will Rock You"
Bottom 3

3
Kellie Pickler
"Bohemian Rhapsody"
Safe

4
Chris Daughtry
"Innuendo"
Safe

5
Katharine McPhee
"Who Wants to Live Forever"
Safe

6
Elliott Yamin
"Somebody To Love"
Bottom 3

7
Taylor Hicks
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love"
Safe

8
Paris Bennett
"The Show Must Go On"
Safe

text: Top 7 – Great American Songbook[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Chris Daughtry
"What a Wonderful World"(Louis Armstrong)
Bottom 2

2
Paris Bennett
"These Foolish Things"(Billie Holiday)
Bottom 3

3
Taylor Hicks
"You Send Me"(Sam Cooke)
Safe

4
Elliott Yamin
"It Had To Be You"(Sam Lanin and his Orchestra)
Safe

5
Kellie Pickler
"Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered"(Vivienne Segal)
Safe

6
Ace Young
"That's All"(Nat King Cole)
Eliminated

7
Katharine McPhee
"Someone to Watch Over Me"(Gertrude Lawrence)
Safe

text: Top 6 – Love Songs[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Katharine McPhee
"I Have Nothing"(Whitney Houston)
Top 2

2
Elliott Yamin
"A Song for You"(Leon Russell)
Safe

3
Kellie Pickler
"Unchained Melody"(Todd Duncan)
Eliminated

4
Paris Bennett
"The Way We Were"(Barbra Streisand)
Bottom 2

5
Taylor Hicks
"Just Once"(James Ingram)
Safe

6
Chris Daughtry
"Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?"(Bryan Adams)
Top 2

text: Top 5 – Year of Birth/Current Billboard Top 10[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Elliott Yamin
"On Broadway"(The Crystals)
Bottom 2

2
Paris Bennett
"Kiss"(Prince and The Revolution)
Eliminated

3
Chris Daughtry
"Renegade"(Styx)
Safe

4
Katharine McPhee
"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"(Phil Collins)
Safe

5
Taylor Hicks
"Play That Funky Music"(Wild Cherry)
Safe

6
Elliott Yamin
"Home"(Michael Bublé)
Bottom 2

7
Paris Bennett
"Be Without You"(Mary J. Blige)
Eliminated

8
Chris Daughtry
"I Dare You"(Shinedown)
Safe

9
Katharine McPhee
"Black Horse and the Cherry Tree"(KT Tunstall)
Safe

10
Taylor Hicks
"Something"(The Beatles)
Safe

text: Top 4 – Elvis Presley[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song
Result

1
Taylor Hicks
"Jailhouse Rock"
Safe

2
Chris Daughtry
"Suspicious Minds"
Eliminated

3
Elliott Yamin
"If I Can Dream"
Safe

4
Katharine McPhee
"Hound Dog" / "All Shook Up"
Bottom 2

5
Taylor Hicks
"In the Ghetto"
Safe

6
Chris Daughtry
"A Little Less Conversation"
Eliminated

7
Elliott Yamin
"Trouble"
Safe

8
Katharine McPhee
"Can't Help Falling in Love"
Bottom 2

text: Top 3 – Clive Davis's choice/Judges' choice/Contestants' choice[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Elliott Yamin
"Open Arms"(Journey)
Eliminated

2
Katharine McPhee
"I Believe I Can Fly"(R. Kelly)
Safe

3
Taylor Hicks
"Dancing in the Dark"(Bruce Springsteen)
Safe

4
Elliott Yamin
"What You Won't Do for Love1"(Bobby Caldwell)
Eliminated

5
Katharine McPhee
"Over the Rainbow2"(Judy Garland)
Safe

6
Taylor Hicks
"You Are So Beautiful3"(Billy Preston and Bruce Fisher)
Safe

7
Elliott Yamin
"I Believe to My Soul"(Ray Charles)
Eliminated

8
Katharine McPhee
"I Ain't Got Nothin' But the Blues"(Duke Ellington)
Safe

9
Taylor Hicks
"Try a Little Tenderness"(Val Rosing and The Ray Noble Orchestra)
Safe

text:
Note 1: Paula Abdul chose this song
Note 2: Simon Cowell chose this song
Note 3: Randy Jackson chose this song

text: Top 2 – Previous Song/Another Previous Song/Winning Song[edit]

text:
Order
Contestant
Song (original artist)
Result

1
Katharine McPhee
"Black Horse and the Cherry Tree"(KT Tunstall)
Runner-Up

2
Taylor Hicks
"Living for the City"(Stevie Wonder)
Winner

3
Katharine McPhee
"Over The Rainbow"(Judy Garland)
Runner-Up

4
Taylor Hicks
"Levon" (Elton John)
Winner

5
Katharine McPhee
"My Destiny"(Katharine McPhee)
Runner-Up

6
Taylor Hicks
"Do I Make You Proud"(Taylor Hicks)
Winner

text: Performers on results shows[edit]

text:
March 15 – Stevie Wonder
March 22 – Barry Manilow
March 29 – Shakira and Wyclef Jean – "Hips Don't Lie"
April 5 – Kenny Rogers
April 12 – Final 8 sing a medley of Queen
April 19 – Rod Stewart
April 26 – Andrea Bocelli and David Foster
May 3 – Top 5 perform "Together We Are One" (originally written and sung by Australian singer Delta Goodrem for the 2006 Commonwealth Games)
May 10 – Top 4 perform a medley of Elvis songs
May 17 – Each contestant of the Top 3 performs the song they will be singing on the American Idol Season 5: Encores CD

text: Elimination song[edit]

text: A new feature this year, the show now uses a special song to make a tribute to an eliminated contestant's journey on the show, as opposed to before when various different melodic music compositions were played. This year, the song used for an eliminated contestant's flashback tribute was "Bad Day" by Daniel Powter.

text: The finale[edit]

text: On the finale, Carrie Underwood sang "Don't Forget to Remember Me" solo along with the song "Through the Rain" with the 12 finalists. Also, the finalists performed two medleys: one medley was for the female finalists and the other for the male finalists. Several special guests performed with one of the top five Idols: Al Jarreau (Paris Bennett), Live (Chris Daughtry), Meat Loaf (Katharine McPhee), Mary J. Blige (Elliott Yamin) and Toni Braxton (Taylor Hicks). Clay Aiken performed with lookalike auditioner Michael Sandecki, who resembled Aiken c. his 2005 audition. Also, Prince performed without an Idol. Towards the end of the program, the finalists performed "That's What Friends Are For" with Dionne Warwick as well as other songs in the Burt Bacharach canon, with Burt Bacharach playing the piano. Several auditioners from the first round returned to accept "Golden Idol" awards, and to sing. A parody of Brokeback Mountain (though there was no mention of homosexuality) called "Brokenote Mountain," featuring a group of three failed auditioners (Layne Johnson, Michael Evans, and Matthew Buckstein) was replayed from the Hollywood round. The trio "The Brokenote Cowboys" then performed the Waylon Jennings & Willie Nelson song "Mammas Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys". In a pre-taped segment, finalist Kellie Pickler ate lunch with Wolfgang Puck at his brasserie as a way of making fun of Kellie's admitted lack of culinary savvy. Finally, just before the results were announced, Hicks and McPhee performed "(I've Had) The Time of My Life".

text: The chairman of TeleScope Inc., the company which manages the American Idol results, came at the end of the show with the result card. 578 million votes were cast for the season with 63.5 million votes in the finale, and Taylor Hicks was named the winner, the second American Idol winner from the city of Birmingham, Alabama (the first being Ruben Studdard), and the fourth finalist with close ties to the city.[20]

text: Elimination chart[edit]

text: Note: Bottom 2 indicates that the contestant was 'saved' last. This may or may not indicate his or her actual vote rank.

text:
Legend

Female
Male
Top 24
Top 12
Winner

text:
Safe
Top 2
Safe First
Safe Last
Eliminated

text:
Stage:
Semifinals
Finals

Week:
2/23
3/2
3/9
3/15
3/22
3/29
4/5
4/12
4/19
4/26
5/3
5/10
5/17
5/24

Place
Contestant
Result

1
Taylor Hicks

Winner

2
Katharine McPhee

Bottom 2

Top 2

Bottom 2

Runner-Up

3
Elliott Yamin

Bottom 2
Bottom 3

Bottom 2

Elim

4
Chris Daughtry

Bottom 2
Top 2

Elim

5
Paris Bennett

Bottom 3

Bottom 3
Bottom 2
Elim

6
Kellie Pickler

Elim

7
Ace Young

Bottom 3

Bottom 3

Bottom 3
Elim

8
Bucky Covington

Bottom 2

Elim

9
Mandisa

Elim

10
Lisa Tucker

Bottom 2
Bottom 3
Elim

11
Kevin Covais

Bottom 3

Elim

12
Melissa McGhee

Elim

13–16
Gedeon McKinney

Elim

Ayla Brown

Will Makar

Kinnik Sky

Bottom 3

17–20
José "Sway" Penala

Elim

David Radford

Heather Cox

Brenna Gethers

21–24
Patrick Hall
Elim

Stevie Scott

Bobby Bennett

Becky O'Donohue

text: DialIdol[edit]

text: DialIdol is both the name of a computer program for Microsoft Windows and its associated website that began tracking contestants during season four and sprang to prominence at the start of season five. The program allows users to automatically vote for the American Idol contestants of their choice using their PC's phone modem. The program then reports back to the main website, which keeps track of the results based on the percentage of calls for each contestant that result in a busy signal. Based on the data received, the website then predicts which contestants may be eliminated or may be in danger of being eliminated. As of May 25, 2006, its predictions for season five were 87% accurate.[21]

text: This was the first season in which the free US public service website, Zabasearch.com, started to openly present voting results (starting with the top 12 and onward) that it claims are from Cingular and American Idol. It has experienced controversy over the fact that its results change throughout the day until (and often through) the results show.

text: Controversies[edit]

text:
In January 2006, twins Derrell and Terrell Brittenum were charged with forgery and theft after allegedly using a false identity to purchase a car. This occurred after the "Hollywood" portion of the show was filmed, and the twins were subsequently disqualified.[22]
Simon Cowell said that he did not like "last year's winner" as much as Kellie Pickler. He has since said that it was a heat of the moment thing, as Carrie Underwood had performed on the show the week before and was not very fond of the performance.
In January 2006, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) expressed concern about the show's portrayal of some contestants: "The real offense here was in the producer's decision to add insult to injury by turning a contestant's gender expression into the butt of a joke." Damon Romine, Entertainment Media Director, on January 20.[23]
In January 2006 The National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance, NAAFA accused the show of being discriminatory towards its plus sized contestants.
In February 2006, it was discovered that José "Sway" Penala was reportedly signed to E-Real Record with his band 6th Day, at the time of his audition.
Two rumors about finalist Katharine McPhee circulated during early March and throughout the season. The first was that she was quitting the show and would not show up for the March 7th airing. The second was sparked by the loose fitting blouses she had been wearing, leading viewers to suspect she was pregnant. Katharine denied both rumors when interviewed by host Ryan Seacrest on the March 7th show.[24]
During the March 28 show while Mandisa Hundley was singing, her name and phone number came up, but changed for a few seconds and showed Taylor Hicks' name and phone number. At the end of the show the numbers were right.[25]
Mandisa Hundley was voted out after country week, whereby her rendition of "Any Man of Mine" was not well received as a good song choice. The reason behind her elimination was speculated to be what she said before she began to sing her rendition of "Shackles (Praise You)" by Mary Mary: "This song goes out to everybody that wants to be free. Your addiction, lifestyle and situation may be big, but God is bigger." Many viewers believed that the "lifestyle" stated was regarding the homosexual lifestyle, which she denied, clarifying that the lifestyle she was referring to was her lifestyle of addiction to food. Mandisa is a former employee of the Southern Baptist Convention, having joined the Convention in 2000 as a telephone sales representative for their LifeWay book division, and later in their women's enrichment events area, and later Beth Moore's Living Proof Live events. (Moore's books are published by LifeWay.)[26]
On the April 25 show, the theme of which was Greatest Love Songs and featured guest coaches Andrea Bocelli and David Foster, executive producer Nigel Lythgoe forced contestant Taylor Hicks to change his song a day before air time (and the same day as the dress rehearsal). Hicks' chosen song was "Try a Little Tenderness," but Lythgoe, in a radio interview, claimed the song was more appropriate for a Blues Brothers week and was not a song that Andrea Bocelli would sing. Hicks changed his song at the last minute to "Just Once" (James Ingram) and appeared very uncomfortable on stage. Hicks fans were distressed, feeling that a) Hicks' original choice of song was very appropriate to the theme; b) The producers changed the song at the last minute even though they must have known Hicks' choice the previous week as they must obtain clearance for all songs; c) Lythgoe's statement that it was not a song Andrea Bocelli would sing was dubious, as other song choices that were approved were songs sung by Bryan Adams ("Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman," sung by Chris Daughtry) and Donny Hathaway ("A Song for You," sung by Elliott Yamin).[27]
During the East Coast transmission of the May 2 show, Paris Bennett was bleeped while singing Mary J. Blige's "Be Without You" at the exact point where an obscenity appears in the lyrics. However, Fox confirmed that the song was not bleeped when it was broadcast on the West Coast. Forum posters on the West Coast said Bennett sang the radio edit of the song which excludes the obscenity, leaving viewers nationwide wondering why Bennett was precensored during the earlier live transmission. Paris was eliminated in the results show the day after.[28]
Following Chris Daughtry's elimination, many Idol fans claimed calls they dialed to Daughtry's line during the first few minutes of voting were misdirected. According to them, the first of his two numbers was answered by a recording of Katharine McPhee (who was also in the bottom two that night) giving thanks for their vote rather than Daughtry.[29] Others reported similar behavior dialing other lines, such as dialing Elliott Yamin's line and hearing a recording of Daughtry giving thanks for their vote.[30]
On Top 5 night (May 3), Elliott Yamin performed first, with Taylor Hicks going out last. Next week (May 10, Top 4 night), Katharine McPhee went out last. Yamin was expected to go out last on Top 3 night (May 17), but he was again the first one to sing, losing what is called the "pimp spot", while Hicks was the last one to perform that night. Yamin's fans were distressed stating it was Yamin's right to go out last, while Hicks should have been first, and that the show producers' arranged it to have Yamin eliminated next night (May 18), which actually happened.

text: Other Idol contestants[edit]

text:
Gina Glocksen, who originally auditioned in Chicago, but she was cut at the last day of Hollywood Week. Glocksen returned in the sixth season and finished in ninth place.
Carly Smithson - auditioned in Las Vegas and got cut during the Hollywood rounds. Smithson returned in the seventh season and finished in sixth place.

text: US Nielsen ratings[edit]

text: American Idol was the top-rated show for the 2005–06 TV season and occupied the top two positions. The number of viewers for its Tuesday episodes averaged 31.17 million and for the Wednesday episodes 30.16 million.[31] It is still the most-watched of all seasons with an overall average number of viewers of 30.6 million per episode. Click on "show" below to see the rating details.

text:
[hide]Episode list

Show
Episode
Air date
Week
rank
Rating/Share
18–49
rating/Share
Viewers
(millions)

1
"Chicago Auditions"[32]
January 17, 2006
3
19.3 / 28
15.3 / 34
35.53

2
"Denver Auditions"[32]
January 18, 2006
4
17.8 / 27
13.0 / 33
31.65

3
"Greensboro Auditions"[33]
January 24, 2006
1
19.6 / 29
15.1 / 35
34.96

4
"San Francisco Auditions"[33]
January 25, 2006
2
18.2 / 28
13.0 / 33
32.44

5
"Las Vegas Auditions"[34]
January 31, 2006
5
17.4 / 27
12.4 / 31
30.18

6
"Austin Auditions"[34]
February 1, 2006
6
16.9 / 25
12.5 / 32
30.40

7
"Boston Auditions"[35]
February 7, 2006
1
17.6 / 26
12.9 / 32
31.15

8
"Hollywood Round 1"[35]
February 8, 2006
2
16.3 / 24
11.4 / 29
28.74

9
"Hollywood Round 2"[36]
February 14, 2006
2
16.5 / 25
11.4 / 29
26.96

10
"Hollywood: Top 24 Revealed"[36]
February 15, 2006
1
15.5 / 24
11.9 / 30
28.78

11
"Top 12 Women Perform"[37]
February 21, 2006
2
16.9 / 24
13.0 / 30
30.16

12
"Top 12 Men Perform"[37]
February 22, 2006
1
18.2 / 27
13.5 / 33
31.69

13
"Top 24 Results"[37]
February 23, 2006
7
13.3 / 20
9.9 / 24
23.38

14
"Top 10 Women Perform"[38]
February 28, 2006
2
17.0 / 25
12.4 / 31
30.09

15
"Top 10 Men Perform[38]
March 1, 2006
4
16.6 / 26
12.2 / 31
29.64

16
"Top 20 Results[38]
March 2, 2006
5
15.2 / 23
10.9 / 27
26.32

17
"Top 8 Women Men Perform"[39]
March 7, 2006
2
16.7 / 25
11.8 / 31
28.56

18
"Top 8 Men Perform"[39]
March 8, 2006
1
17.2 / 27
12.4 / 32
30.38

19
"Top 12 Revealed"[39]
March 9, 2006
4
15.4 / 24
10.8 / 28
26.63

20
"Top 12 Perform"[40]
March 14, 2006
1
18.5 / 27
13.7 / 33
32.77

21
"Top 12 Results"[40]
March 15, 2006
1
16.3 / 25
11.5 / 27
28.09

22
"Top 11 Perform"[41]
March 21, 2006
1
19.2 / 28
13.6 / 33
33.36

23
"Top 11 Results"[41]
March 22, 2006
2
15.9 / 24
11.4 / 27
27.68

24
"Top 10 Perform"[42]
March 28, 2006
1
18.0 / 27
13.0 / 33
31.71

25
"Top 10 Results"[42]
March 29, 2006
2
15.9 / 24
11.3 / 27
27.66

26
"Top 9 Perform"[43]
April 4, 2006
1
16.6 / 23
11.6 / 32
28.83

27
"Top 9 Results"[43]
April 5, 2006
2
15.7 / 23
10.8 / 26
26.23

28
"Top 8 Perform"[44]
April 11, 2006
1
14.2 / 22
12.0 / 33
29.65

29
"Top 8 Results"[44]
April 12, 2006
3
12.0 / 19
9.2 / 24
22.64

30
"Top 7 Perform"[45]
April 18, 2006
1
16.6 / 26
11.4 / 32
28.44

31
"Top 7 Results"[45]
April 19, 2006
2
16.5 / 25
11.3 / 30
27.63

32
Top 6 Perform"[46]
April 25, 2006
1
16.7 / 26
11.5 / 30
28.67

33
"Top 6 Results"[46]
April 26, 2006
2
16.6 / 25
11.6 / 28
28.27

34
"Top 5 Perform"[47]
May 2, 2006
2
16.6 / 26
11.4 / 31
28.58

35
"Top 5 Results"[47]
May 3, 2006
1
16.9 / 25
11.7 / 28
29.26

36
"Top 4 Perform"[48]
May 9, 2006
1
16.8 / 26
11.6 / 31
28.85

37
"Top 4 Results"[48]
May 10, 2006
2
16.1 / 24
11.2 / 27
27.88

38
"Top 3 Perform"[49]
May 16, 2006
1
16.6 / 26
11.0 / 30
28.33

39
"Top 3 Results"[49]
May 17, 2006
2
16.6 / 26
10.7 / 25
27.67

40
"Top 2 Perform"[50]
May 23, 2006
2
18.2/ 29
12.3 / 34
31.78

41
Season 5 Finale"[50]
May 24, 2006
1
20.5 / 32
14.2 / 35
36.38

text: Post Idol[edit]

text: This is the first season that a majority of finalists have major label recording contracts after Idol. Of them – Taylor Hicks, Katharine McPhee, Elliott Yamin, Chris Daughtry, and Kellie Pickler are distributed by Sony BMG Music Entertainment; Bucky Covington by Universal Music Group; Ace Young and Mandisa by EMI. One other contestant that did not even make the top 24 (Brooke Barrettsmith) was also picked up by Sony BMG, and Universal also picked up Brianna Taylor who also did not make the top 24. Two finalists have a deal with an independent labels – Paris Bennett and Lisa Tucker.[51] The remaining two finalists are unsigned – Kevin Covais, and Melissa McGhee. (Covais, however, has begun an acting career and McGhee has taken part in charity events for Idol Gives Back [52][53]) Also, six semi-finalists have deals and albums with independent labels – Ayla Brown, Gedeon McKinney, Heather Cox, Patrick Hall, Will Makar, Stevie Scott and David Radford. In addition, at least one contestant who was cut before the semifinals, Bobby Bullard, has also been signed and recorded with a small label.

text: Taylor Hicks first post-Idol single, "Do I Make You Proud", would debut at number one and be certified gold.[54] Hicks' album, Taylor Hicks, has sold 703,000 copies. He later parted with Arista Records. His follow-up album, "The Distance," was released March 10, 2009 on his own record label Modern Whomp Records.

text: The fifth-season contestant with the most commercial success is fourth-place finisher Chris Daughtry, now lead singer of the band Daughtry. Their eponymous debut album has sold over 5 million copies to date—surpassing former winners Studdard and Fantasia's respective two-album totals—and produced two top-ten singles. The album, which spent two weeks at number one in the US, is also the fastest-selling debut rock album in Soundscan history.[55]

text: As of November 2008: Runner-up Katharine McPhee's debut album has sold 374,000 copies; she has two Top 40 Billboard hits. Also notable: sixth-place finisher Kellie Pickler, whose Small Town Girl reached number one on the Billboard Top Country Albums chart and was certified gold. To date it has sold over 815,000 copies. Third-place finisher Elliott Yamin's eponymous debut album was certified gold and produced a platinum-selling single. Eighth-place finisher Bucky Covington's self-titled debut album has sold over 400,000 copies and generated a top 20 and two top 10 hits on the Billboard Hot Country Singles chart. Ninth-place finisher Mandisa's True Beauty album earned a Grammy Award nomination for Best Pop/Contemporary Gospel Album in 2007.

text: Season five is the season from the first ten seasons of American Idol with the most number of finalists who have made it onto the Billboard charts.[56]

text: Major releases[edit]

text: Compilations[edit]

text: The compilation album for this season was performed by the top twelve finalists.

text:
Information
Digital Downloads

American Idol Season 5: Encores

Released: May 23, 2006
Label: RCA Records
Chart Positions: – 3 (US)
RIAA Certification: – Gold
U.S. sales: – 381,075

Alphabetical order by song title

"Father Figure"

(108 US)

"Midnight Train to Georgia"

(52 US Pop)

"Moody's Mood for Love"

(73 US Pop, 76 US Digital)

"Takin' It to the Streets"

(69 US, 42 US Digital)

"Think"

(121 US, 90 US Pop)

"Wanted Dead or Alive"

(43 US, 11 US Digital, 37 US Pop)

text: Albums[edit]

text:
Artist
Information

Chris Daughtry
Daughtry

Released: November 21, 2006
Label: RCA Records
Chart Positions: 1 (US), 1 (Rock), 1 (Digital), 1 (Comprehensive), 1 (Internet)
RIAA Certification: 4x Platinum
U.S. sales: 4,813,000

Kellie Pickler
Small Town Girl

Released: October 31, 2006
Label: BNA Records
Chart Positions: 1 (US Top Country), 9 (Billboard 200), 12 (Canada Top Country Albums)
RIAA Certification: Gold
U.S. sales: 854,000

Taylor Hicks
Taylor Hicks

Released: December 12, 2006
Label: Arista Records
Chart Positions: 2 (US Billboard 200), 43 (Canada)
RIAA Certification: Platinum
U.S. sales: 704,000

Elliott Yamin
Elliott Yamin

Released: March 20, 2007
Label: Hickory Records
Sony RED Distribution
Chart Positions: 3 (Billboard 200), 1 (Top Independent Albums), 11 (Top R&B albums)
RIAA Certification: Gold
U.S. sales: 527,000

Bucky Covington
Bucky Covington

Released: April 17, 2007
Label: Lyric Street Records
Hollywood Records
Chart Positions: 4 (Billboard 200), 1 (US Top Country)
RIAA Certification: Uncertified
U.S. sales: 405,000

Katharine McPhee
Katharine McPhee

Released: January 30, 2007
Label: RCA Records
Chart Positions: 2 (US Billboard 200), 23 (Canada)
RIAA Certification: Uncertified
U.S. sales: 381,000

Mandisa
True Beauty

Released: July 31, 2007
Label: Sparrow Records
Chart Positions: 43 (Billboard 200), 1 (Hot Christian Albums)
RIAA Certification: Uncertified
U.S. sales: 219,000

Mandisa
It's Christmas

Released: October 14, 2008
Label: Sparrow Records
Chart Positions: 64 (Billboard Hot 200) 1 (Billboard Top Christmas Albums) 5 (Billboard Top Christian Albums)
RIAA Certification: not certified
U.S. sales:26,000

Mandisa
Freedom

Released: March 24, 2009
Label: Sparrow Records
Chart Positions: 83 (US Billboard 200), 4 (US Billboard Top Christian Albums)
RIAA Certification: Uncertified
U.S. sales: 132,000

Elliott Yamin
Fight for Love

Released: May 5, 2009
Label: Hickory Records
Chart Positions: 26 (US Billboard 200), 4 (US Billboard Independent Albums)
RIAA Certification: Uncertified
U.S. sales: 49,000

Chris Daughtry
Leave This Town

Released: July 14, 2009
Label: RCA Records
Chart Positions: 1 (US Billboard 200), 1 (Rock)
RIAA Certification: Platinum
U.S. sales: 1,307,000

Chris Daughtry
Break the Spell

Released: November 21, 2011
Label: RCA Records
Chart Positions: 8 (US Billboard 200), 2 (Rock)
RIAA Certification: Gold
U.S. sales: 520,000

Chris Daughtry
'Baptized

Released: November 18, 2014
Label: RCA Records
Chart Positions: 6 (US Billboard 200), 2 (Rock)
RIAA Certifications: Gold
U.S. sales: 532,000

text: Minor & independent releases[edit]

text:
Artist
Information

Bobby "Bluu Suede" Bullard
The Bluu Suede Project

Released: 2007
Label: Stres Entertainment Inc.

Ayla Brown
Forward (LP)

Released: October 17, 2006
Label: Double Deal Brand Records [57]
U.S. sales: 3,200

Paris Bennett
Princess P (LP)

Released: May 8, 2007
Label: 306 Entertainment
U.S. sales: 22,000

Ace Young
"Scattered" (digital download)

Released: October 20, 2006
Label: Freeman Records
U.S. sales: –

Elliott Yamin
"This Christmas" (digital download)

Released: December 6, 2006
Label: Pulse Recording and Three Ring Projects
Chart Positions: 167 (Hot Digital Songs)
U.S. sales: – 87,000

Katharine McPhee
"I Lost You"/"Dangerous" (Wal-Mart)

Released: December 19, 2006
Label: RCA Records
U.S. sales: –

Patrick Hall
One for the Ages (LP)

Released: February 2007
Label: Ni-Fi Records
U.S. sales: –

Josh Royse
Memories

Released: 2009
Label: Independent

David Radford
Swing on By (LP)

Released: 2007
Label: independent

Stevie Scott
Stevie Scott (EP)

Released: July 29, 2008
Label: Heat Rocc Entertainment
U.S. sales: –

Brianna Taylor
Brianna Taylor (EP)

Released: June 3, 2008
Label: Chamberlain Records
U.S. sales: 60,000[58]

Stephanie White
Knee Deep InSanity (CD Baby)

Released: October 12, 2007
Label: independent
U.S. sales: – 1,000+ as of April 2008
Notes: lead singer of her band, Stephanie White and the New Jersey Philth Harmonic[59][60]

Ace Young
Ace Young

Released: July 15, 2008
Label: Pazzo Music
U.S. sales: 10,000

text: Nominations[edit]

text: In 2006, American Idol also became the most nominated unscripted show ever, and has several nominations in the 2006 Emmy Awards for season five:[61]

text:
Outstanding Reality-Competition Program
Outstanding Art Direction for a Variety, Music Program or Special – Episode #519
Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Program – Bruce Gowers
Outstanding Picture Editing for Nonfiction Programming (Large team entries – Primarily Multi-Camera Productions) – "Audition City: Greensboro"
Outstanding Lighting Direction – "American Classics Songbook with Rod Stewart"
Outstanding Lighting Direction – "Finale"
Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Variety or Music Series or Special or Animation – "American Classics Songbook with Rod Stewart"
Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video for a Series – Episode #530


document_title: La Reina del Sur (TV series)

question_text: when does la reina del sur 2 come out

question_tokens: when does la reina del sur 2 come out

text: La Reina del Sur (TV series)

text: Synopsis[edit]

text: Season 1 (2011)[edit]

text: The series is the television adaptation of the literary work of the same name of Spanish author Arturo Pérez-Reverte. It is the chronicle of the rise to power of a Mexican woman within the world of international drug trafficking. Teresa Mendoza begins her adventure as a humble young woman in love with a pilot employed by the Mexican cartels. When they execute her boyfriend, Teresa flees, desperate to avoid the same fate. Her escape takes her to the south of Spain where she tries to start a new life. However, she is once again immersed in the world of narcotics trafficking, and for a second time, she suffers the death of a beloved man. After several blows, Teresa decides to take the reins of her destiny and becomes the head of her own organization. Through strategic alliances and a strong sense for business, Teresa "La Mexicana" begins to control an intercontinental drug distribution business. However, her great success is accompanied by a high personal price, and Teresa's happiness and heart are tested.

text: Season 2 (2018)[edit]

text: On May 11, 2017 Telemundo confirmed that the series would be renewed to a second season.[7] On Monday, May 15, 2017, Telemundo in its programming for the 2017–18 a preview of the series.[8]

text: Episodes[edit]

text:
Series
Episodes
Originally aired

First aired
Last aired

1
63
28 February 2011 (2011-02-28)
30 May 2011 (2011-05-30)

2
TBA
2018 (2018)[9]
TBA

text: Cast[edit]

text: Main[edit]

text:
Kate del Castillo as Teresa Mendoza
Humberto Zurita as Epifanio Vargas
Rafael Amaya as Raimundo Dávila Parra / El Güero
Iván Sánchez as Santiago López Fisterra / El Gallego
Cristina Urgel as Patricia O'Farrell
Alberto Jiménez as Oleg Yasikov
Miguel de Miguel as Teo Aljarafe
Gabriel Porras as Roberto Gato Márquez / El Gato Fierros
Salvador Zerboni as Ramiro Vargas / El Ratas
Nacho Fresneda as Dris Larbi
Mónica Estarreado as Fátima Mansur
Alejandro Calva as César Güemes / Batman
Cuca Escribano as Sheila
Dagoberto Gama as Potequim Gálvez / El Pote
Christian Tappan as Willy Rangel
Eduardo Velasco as Coronel Abdelkader Chaib
Alfonso Vallejo as Manolo Céspedes
Pablo Castañón as Lalo Veiga
Miguel Ángel Blanco as Siso Pernas
Lorena Santos as Soraya
Sara Maldonado as Verónica Cortés / Guadalupe Romero
Carmen Navarro as Marcela / La Conejo
Santiago Meléndez as Saturnino "Nino" Juárez
Juan José Arjona as Pablo Flores

text: Recurring[edit]

text:
Karim El-Kerem as Mohamed Mansur
Klaus as Eddie Álvarez
Lincoln Palomeque as Faustino Sánchez Godoy
Nerea Garmendia as Eugenia Montijo
Juan Pablo Raba as Jaime Gutiérrez Solana
Ezequiel Montalt as Jaime "Jimmy" Arenas
Rodolfo Valdés as El Chino Parra

text: Remake[edit]

text: An English language remake, Queen of the South, premiered in June 2016 on USA Network, starring Alice Braga.[5][6]

text: Ratings[edit]

text:
Season
Timeslot (ET)
Episodes
First aired
Last aired
Avg. viewers
(millions)

Date
Viewers
(millions)
Date
Viewers
(millions)

1
Mon–Fri 10pm/9c
63
February 28, 2011 (2011-02-28)
2.4[10]
May 30, 2011 (2011-05-30)
4.2[11]
TBD

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text:
Year
Award
Category
Nominated
Result

2011
People in Spanish Awards

Best Telenovela
Roberto Stopello
Won

Best Actress
Kate del Castillo
Won

Best Supporting Actor
Humberto Zurita
Nominated

Rafael Amaya
Nominated

Best Villain
Salvador Zerboni
Nominated

Newcomer of the Year
Cristina Urgel
Won

Iván Sánchez
Nominated

Sweethearts
Kate del Castillo & Iván Sánchez
Nominated

2012
TVyNovelas Awards Colombia

Best Series
Roberto Stopello
Nominated

Favorite Production
Roberto Stopello
Nominated

Best Villain Of Series
Humberto Zurita
Nominated

1st Your World Awards

Novela of the Year
Roberto Stopello
Nominated

Favorite Lead Actress
Kate del Castillo
Nominated

Best Bad Luck Video
Amor que mata
Nominated